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catch-phrase of the day

Google gives 2910 results for “wretched hive of scum and villainy”. 2004 Oct 24: now “about 6,070”; a disturbing trend. 2006 May 10: now “about 76,100”

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had you listened

Barry Gehm: When we were young, we were told that ‘everybody else is doing it’ was a really stupid reason to do something. Now it’s the standard reason for picking a particular software package.

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did you know that the words frustration and fraud are related?

I can’t get Java working under Mozilla. (sigh) I wonder how I did it once before.

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I’m so demanding

From 1990 to 2001 most of my working day was spent in WordPerfect 5.1. Now every office manager says “We have to use Messy-Word because it’s the staaaandurd.” Is it too much to ask that the standard of 2003 offer … Continue reading

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the PIS/SE standard

Peter Stickney writes in alt.peeves: Voice recognition will not be mature until a system can transcribe “Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)” with 95% accuracy, in real time.

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Dali Clock resurrection

It is disturbing how much stuff, less than twenty years old, cannot be read at all by current gear. JWZ tells a tale of software archaeology.

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Mozilla still not perfect

I went to mozilla.org to gripe about the multiple petty ways in which Mozilla 1.2.1, the “latest and greatest” stable release, is less convenient to my fingers than the much-maligned Netscape Communicator 4.79; but was put off by the helpful … Continue reading

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